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MARCH 2018 • FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES • 75
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facility design
p r o j e c t o f t h e m o n t h
The Jones
Assembly
Brings Together
Dining and
Entertainment
Adaptive reuse of two historic
brick warehouses in Oklahoma City
transformed this space into a two-story
dining space and concert area, a mezzanine
bar and an open-air lounge.
By Donna Boss
I
n July 2017 down-
town Oklahoma City's
West End district
welcomed the open-
ing of The Jones Assembly.
An invention of The Social
Order Dining Collective
restaurant company, this
20,000-square-foot venue
features a unique dining
and entertainment destina-
tion containing a 225-seat
restaurant, separate down-
stairs and mezzanine bars
and a 1,600-person capacity
concert space for live events.
The Jones Assembly proj-
ect revitalizes two century-old
historic buildings that were
formerly part of the Fred
Jones Manufacturing Co.
complex, once the nation's
largest authorized recondition-
er of Ford Motor Company
automotive products. The
warehouses sit in the West
End district, which had been
rundown for about 15 years
before the beginning of new
development. "We wanted to
embrace the renaissance in
Oklahoma City and bring a
restaurant and nightlife scene
no one had ever seen," says
Graham Colton, a partner of
The Jones Assembly.
In 2014, Colton and his
partner Brian Bogert teamed
up with Fred Jones' grand-
sons Kirk and Fred Hall of
Hall Capital, an investment
firm and owners of the Fred
Jones Manufacturing Co.
The Hall family also owns
the boutique 21c Museum
Hotel, near the historic
buildings. Together they cre-
ated The Jones Assembly.
Photo by Madison Rae Photos